We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.

Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.

Those localized efforts take a long time and they don't deal with the larger issue of ISIL and the question of what you're going to do to really have a solution here. We have to save Syria.

In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.

I accept that friends of ours have decided that the President's non-strike has somehow impacted perceptions of us. But I believe they are dead wrong and I think the critics are dead wrong, and here's why. The President [Barack Obama] made his decision to strike. He announced his decision to strike publicly. And the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of Syria. That's the purpose.

The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.